Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > Raymond Hettinger <pyt...@rcn.com> writes: > >> Compute π ± e by counting Mandlebrot set iterations :-) > > Very cool! I love π nerdery. > > > Raymond Hettinger <pyt...@rcn.com> writes: > >> > Compute ð ± e by counting Mandlebrot set iterations :-) >> >> That should be: pi plus-or-minus e > > It was in my reader. Perhaps your server has encoding trouble?
He (or rather Google) used iso-8859-7 as a character set, which is the Latin/Greek alphabet and definitely has pi at 0xF0. Not exactly a common character set though. Running a iso-8859-1 font in a terminal means I see a ? instead of pi... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
